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Originally Posted by Señor_Striatum Awesome work bro I'm glad the eBay purchase panned out for u.

Oh it sure did i was luck to say the least. but their is 5 more for under 80$ so maybe just maybe. profit?

Originally Posted by Señor_Striatum I do the reflow almost exactly how you depicted with the exception of the amount of foil used and the bluetack. I like the idea of the bluetack and previous to this I had not even heard of it. Is this something you read up on or a technique you developed yourself? Have you had any problems with he oils present in the blutack?

Bluetack is something i got from my lecturer at university in electronics 101 . as for the OIL in the bluetack not a problem as long as you let it cool down before you try to take it off the board as it goes sticky and stringy when hot, and it hardens back up when cold so it's easy to get off.

Originally Posted by Señor_Striatum Lastly, I am curious why you left so much of the board exposed. I typically have absolutely everything but the heatshields covered. Is it better to expose the vicinity around the heatspreaders in your opinion?

I did wonder about leaving so much exposed myself but it did not seem to affect anything at all, if i was to do it next time i would cover the fan plugs as they went a little brown. as for my opinion i figured that well if everything is covered up it may not heat up evenly and some parts would be cooler than others and may lead to an uneven re flow or focus to much head on one area.
that's what i was thinking anyway. as most of them parts would get that hot anyway with cod marathon

Originally Posted by Señor_Striatum Again awesome work. I was going to make something similar to this and have the pics ready and everything. But in all honesty I feel you have all the bases covered so thank you.

No problem i was doing it for my self so i did not forget over time but... it turned into a tutorial so i decided to share with everyone.